How to Live a Healthy and Happy Vegan Lifestyle

    Michael Greger, M.D. - Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States.   Subscribe to NutritionFacts.org’s free newsletter to receive our B12 infographic that covers the latest research takeaways and Dr. Greger’s updated recommendations: https://nutritionfacts.org/subscribe/  Every year I scour the world’s scholarly literature on clinical nutrition, pulling together what I find to be the most interesting, practical, and groundbreaking science on how to best feed ourselves and our families. I start with the thousands of papers published annually on human nutrition, and, thanks to a crack team of volunteers (and staff!), I’m able to whittle those down to about 3,000 studies, which are downloaded, categorized, read, analy...

From teenage years to your 50s and beyond, here's everything you need to know about plant-based women's nutrition by your age group. While the beauty and diet world would like everyone to believe the secret to healthful aging is about our appearance, science knows better: The inside-out approach is what counts. But there are specific requirements for women’s nutrition that are worth highlighting—and they’re different at every age. About 41 percent of cis women ages 19-50 have at least one nutritional deficiency, according to a 2017 review published in Nutrients. To avoid risk of deficiency, it is important to fulfill recommended nutrient intakes of vitamins and minerals, like calcium and iron to maintain health as your body changes with each passing decade. One of the best ways to get these nutrients is by eating a plant-based diet, or incorporating more plant foods into your existing diet, and reducing meat intake. Plant foods are packed with essential nutrients that are not ...

In a recent video with Plant Based Science London, Dr. Greger states: “I encourage people to drink unsweetened soy milk, which is the healthiest milk out there. Of course, you don’t have to drink any milk at all… If you put it on Fruit Loops it doesn’t matter what kind of milk, it’s all bad. “But if you’re using that milk to moisten your oat groats in the morning. Well, then unsweetened soy is probably the best.” You can read the full study here

Death in America is largely a foodborne illness. Focusing on studies published just over the last year in peer-reviewed scientific medical journals, Dr. Greger offers practical advice on how best to feed ourselves and our families to prevent, treat, and even reverse many of the top 15 killers in the United States. DOCTOR'S NOTE Dr. Greger: Today’s video-of-the-day is a  NutritionFacts.org  first. Though I don’t always succeed, I normally strive to make each of my videos about two minutes in length to match the typical online attention span. That’s why when this presentation was  serendipitously taped last month , I turned it into a short DVD rather than uploading it directly to the site. But the response it got was so positive, that I really wanted to get it online. If you too found it valuable, please share it and pass it along. And if you haven’t already, you can subscribe for free to my videos at  http://bit.ly/nutritionfactsup… . Tomorrow we’ll return to our r...

  Canned beans are convenient, but are they as nutritious as home-cooked? And, if we do use canned, should we drain them or not? DOCTOR'S NOTE Dr. Greger: My family always just keeps an open can of beans in the fridge so we can spoon extra nutrition onto any meal. Why should we go out of our way to include beans in our daily diet?  Increased Lifespan from Beans  and  BRCA Breast Cancer Genes & Soy , as well as  Beans & the Second Meal Effect . Concerns about gas? See my associated blog post:  Beans & Gas: Clearing the Air . And beans are such a bargain! More tips in: Eating Healthy on a Budget Eating Healthy on the Cheap Biggest Nutrition Bang for Your Buck Superfood Bargains If the 96% statistic wasn’t depressing enough, be sure to check out  Nation’s Diet in Crisis . For further context, check out my associated blog posts:  Top 10 Most Popular Videos of 2013  and  Are Canned Beans as Healthy as Home-Cooked? I...

   Join Dr. McDougall for a two part lecture series on the potato. In these all encompassing lectures, Dr. McDougall covers everything you need to know about the topics we get the most questions about. Both lectures will conclude with a Q & A where Dr. McDougall will answer your specific questions on this very misunderstood tuber. Go to Part Two

  'Plant-based diets aren’t just safer and cheaper. They can work better because they let us treat the actual cause of the disease' Lifestyle approaches aren’t only safer and cheaper – they can work better, because they let us treat the actual cause of the disease. The most likely reason most of our loved ones will die is heart disease. It’s up to each of us to make our own decisions about what to eat and how to live, but we should make these choices consciously by educating ourselves about the predictable consequences of our actions.   Atherosclerosis Atherosclerosis, or hardening of the arteries, begins in childhood . The arteries of nearly all kids raised on the standard American diet already have fatty streaks marking the first stage of the disease – by the time they are 10 years old. After that, the plaques start forming in our 20s, get worse in our 30s, and then can start killing us off. In our heart, it’s called a heart attack, and in our brain, it can manifest as a s...

  The reason egg consumption is associated with elevated cancer risk may be the TMAO, considered the “smoking gun” of microbiome-disease interactions. Michael Greger, M.D. FACLM is a physician, New York Times bestselling author, and internationally recognized professional speaker on a number of important public health issues. Dr. Greger has lectured at the Conference on World Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and the International Bird Flu Summit, among countless other symposia and institutions; testified before Congress; has appeared on shows such as The Colbert Report and The Dr. Oz Show; and was invited as an expert witness in defense of Oprah Winfrey at the infamous "meat defamation" trial. In 2017, he was honored with the ACLM Lifestyle Medicine Trailblazer Award. DOCTOR'S NOTE What did the egg industry do in response to this information? Distort the scientific record. See Egg Industry Response to Choline and TMAO . This isn’t the first time the egg indust...